Anastasia Potapova

Juniors

On the junior tour, Potapova has a career-high junior ranking of 1, achieved in July 2016. Potapova has had large success on the junior tour including a semifinal at the 2016 French Open, quarterfinals at the 2016 Australian Open and the 2015 Wimbledon Championships and doubles finals at the 2015 US Open and the 2016 French Open. Potapova won the 2016 Wimbledon Championships girls' title, defeating Dayana Yastremska in the final. This title made her the No. 1 junior in the world.

Potapova's other junior highlights include semifinal appearances at the Trofeo Bonfiglio and the Orange Bowl Championships, both Grade A events. Her biggest junior title, excluding Wimbledon, is the Nike Junior International in Roehampton, a Grade 1 event, where she defeated other highly rated junior players such as Claire Liu, Jaimee Fourlis, Sofia Kenin, Olga Danilović and Olesya Pervushina en-route to winning the title.

2017: Early Rise

Starting her first full year on the tour, Potapova started 2017 unranked as she had only played two professional events entering the year. She defeated rival Amanda Anisimova in the final at an ITF 25k event held in Curitiba.^[1] This triumph saw her defeat Teliana Pereira for her first top-200 win, and pushed her into the top-500 of the rankings for the first time in her career.

She then made her debut at a WTA event, having received a wildcard to compete in the qualifying rounds of the Premier Mandatory event in Miami, defeating Maria Sakkari for her first top-100 win before falling to Jana Čepelová in straight sets. A series of good runs on clay saw her reaching two ITF semifinals in succession, most particularly at the Empire Slovak Open where she was just an inch away from reaching the final. losing 5-7 in the final set against Verónica Cepede Royg, who went on to reach the second week at the French Open.

Potapova was handed another wildcard, this time into the qualifying draw of Wimbledon. She pounced on her chances, steering through all her matches in straight sets to make her Grand Slam main draw debut. However, an untimely fall during her first-round match saw her being forced to retire against Tatjana Maria, ending her impressive run.^[2]

It was a bleak stretch of results which followed for Potapova, who reached just one ITF quarterfinal through the remainder of the year. She ended the year ranked 242, with a 20-14 win-loss record and eight top-200 wins.

2018: Breakthrough onto the main tour

Potapova started 2018 in the best possible way — with a final appearance at the ITF Sharm El Sheikh 15k event, but was upset by world No.769 Yuliya Hatouka there. She then played in her second WTA main-draw match at the St. Petersburg Ladies' Trophy, where she finally earned her first main draw win against Tatjana Maria in straight sets.^[3] This set up a blockbuster second-round match between newly-crowned Australian Open champion and world number one Wozniacki and Potapova, a clash between experience and youth. However, Potapova was only able to claim one game against Wozniacki, falling 0-6, 1-6 to end her run.^[4]

Potapova made her Fed Cup debut for Russia, but lost on her debut to the higher-ranked Viktória Kužmová, and was unable to lead her country to the victory on that weekend. Another ITF final awaited Potapova, this time coming at the O1 Properties Ladies Cup held in Russia. She ousted the 64th-ranked Monica Niculescu but was unable to close out her run as she was defeated by second seed Vera Lapko.

Reaching her first professional clay final in Rome, she lost to Dayana Yastremska there having just won one game in the process.^[5] Potapova was given the chance to participate in yet another WTA event, and entered the Moscow River Cup with the help of a wildcard. She defeated two top-100 players and came out of nowhere to make her maiden WTA final ^[6], but faltered at the last hurdle as she fell to fellow 17-year-old Olga Danilović in a historic clash between the new generation. ^[7] She led by a break in the deciding set, but failed to close out the win but still managed to make her top-150 debut with this amazing run.

Singles: 2 (2 runner-ups)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Opponent	Score
Loss	0–1	Jul 2018	Moscow River Cup, Russia	International	Clay	Olga Danilović	5–7, 7–6(7–1), 4–6
Loss	0–2	Sep 2018	Tashkent Open, Uzbekistan	International	Hard	Margarita Gasparyan	2–6, 1–6

Doubles: 1 (1 title)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Win	1–0	Jul 2018	Moscow River Cup, Russia	International	Clay	Vera Zvonareva	Alexandra Panova Galina Voskoboeva	6–0, 6–3

Singles: 4 (1 title, 3 runner–ups)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
Win	1–0	Mar 2017	ITF Curitiba, Brazil	Hard	Amanda Anisimova	6–7(7–9), 7–5, 6–2
Loss	1–1	Jan 2018	ITF Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt	Hard	Yuliya Hatouka	4–6, 6–4, 5–7
Loss	1–2	May 2018	ITF Khimki, Russia	Hard	Vera Lapko	1–6, 3–6
Loss	1–3	Jul 2018	ITF Rome, Italy	Clay	Dayana Yastremska	1–6, 0–6

Doubles: 4 (2–2)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Winner	1.	6 May 2017	Khimki, Russia	Hard (i)	Olesya Pervushina	Ekaterina Kazionova Daria Kruzhkova	6–0, 6–1
Winner	2.	29 July 2017	Prague, Czech Republic	Clay	Dayana Yastremska	Mihaela Buzărnescu Alona Fomina	6–2, 6–2
Runner-up	1.	20 January 2018	Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt	Hard	Ekaterina Yashina	Jade Lewis Erin Routliffe	6–0, 5–7, [6–10]
Runner-up	2.	14 April 2018	Istanbul, Turkey	Hard	Olga Doroshina	Ayla Aksu Harriet Dart	4–6, 6–7(3–7)

Girls' Singles

Outcome	Year	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
Winner	2016	Wimbledon	Grass	Dayana Yastremska	6–4, 6–3

Girls' Doubles

Outcome	Year	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Runner-up	2015	US Open	Hard	Anna Kalinskaya	Viktória Kužmová Aleksandra Pospelova	5–7, 2–6
Runner-up	2016	French Open	Clay	Olesya Pervushina	Paula Arias Manjón Olga Danilović	6–3, 3–6, [8–10]
Runner-up	2017	French Open	Clay	Olesya Pervushina	Bianca Andreescu Carson Branstine	1–6, 3–6

Singles (0–1)

Edition	Round	Date	Against	Surface	Opponent	W/L	Result	Team Result
2018 Fed Cup	WG II	11 February 2018 Bratislava, Slovakia	Slovakia	Hard (i)	Viktória Kužmová	Loss	6–3, 3–6, 4–6	Loss 1–3